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Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xviii; 829 [1]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided. Publisher's red cloth in a stylish embossed typographic dust-jacket. Discreet black ink date (May 1966) to flyleaf. Top edge faded, with some spotting to edges. Jacket price-clipped..... More
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xviii; 829 [3]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge..... More
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xviii; 829 [3]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided, including a frontispiece. Elegantly hand-bound in red half oasis morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt 'lion rampant' motif to spine, matching..... More
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1904. [Pre-Raphaelite Poetry] FIRST KING-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 310. With 96 illustrations by King, including a frontispiece, decorated title page, and numerous in-text illustrations and full-page plates. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and boards. Top edge..... More
Ill Met By Moonlight. The Story of the Kidnapping of General Karl Kriepe, German Divisional Commander In Crete.
London: Harrap, 1950. [Intelligence / WWII Operation] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Illustrated with frontispiece and 14 plates, 2 maps within the text. Publisher's black cloth in illustrated jacket priced at 10/6. Contents clean, birthday inscription to f.e.p., jacket with some general wear, chips and tears, some rubbing..... More
L'Envers Du Theatre. Machines et Decorations.
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie., 1888. [Backstage Production] Third edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[10] 294 [2]. All text in French. Illustrated by the author with 60 wood engravings of theatrical machinery. Contemporary brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and papier tourniquet over boards..... More
James Bond Girls.
Paris: Editions Pac, 1985. [Bond Film reference] FIRST (and only) EDITION. Quarto (32 x 23cm), pp.108. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs. Publisher's photographic hardcovers. Text in French (no English language edition was published). A decent example showing some light handling, corners a little bumped as often..... More
A History of the Roman World from A.D. 138 to 337. Methuen's History of the Greek and Roman world.
London: Methuen and Co, 1935. [Roman History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[12] 402 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and blind ruling and titles to upper. Includes four folding maps to rear. Toning and spotting to textblock edge, else internally clean. Green 'Foyles' sticker to..... More
The Story of Loopy and Loo. Especially Written for Children of All Ages.
Tunbridge Wells: The Tunbridge Wells School of Art and Crafts, 1945. [Children's Illustrated]. PRIVATELY PRINTED PAMPHLET. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.[12]. Illustrated throughout with striking red, blue and green lino-cuts by Minnie Sutton. In original blue and red illustrated card covers, sewn. The very lightest of wear; near-fine. No copies..... More
Fortress Colony: The Final Act 1945-1964. Vol. I 1945-1954.
Valletta: Studia Editions, 1987. [Maltese History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xx; 444. With occasional black and white in-text illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the title page: 'To Graham | with very best wishes | Jos M. Pirotta.' Publisher's deep red leatherette, with gilt..... More
Gargantua and Pantagruel.
London: The Folio Society, 2019. [Satirical Novels] LIMITED EDITION, FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.xxviii; 454 [6]; pp.xii; 455-949 [5]. A modern translation with Dore's original in-text wood engravings. Number 169 of 500 copies thus, typeset in Bulmer and printed on Abbey Pure Paper at..... More
The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
London: Ellis, 1907. [Poetry] FINE VELLUM BINDING, pocket edition. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.16; 714. With a tissue-guarded, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary quarter vellum, green cloth over boards. Brown label lettered in gilt and gilt floral designs to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Light spotting to..... More
The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
London: Ellis and Elvey, 1891. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary brown full morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, and endpapers decorated with gilt. Gentle toning throughout, with spotting to frontispiece tissue guard. Moderate wear and bumping to..... More
Robert Kennedy and His Times.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. [American Political Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, Ex Libris William Averell Harriman, with his annotations. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 1066 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black marker to fly-leaf: 'For Averell and Pam | with love over | the years | Arthur.' Publisher's grey..... More
The Lost Viol.
London, Ward Lock. 1908. Strange tale.First edition. 8vo. 316pp + 16pp ads. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt and decorated in green to spine and front board. Light bumping to spine ends otherwise a clean and handsome copy. The helpful addition of a Book Lover's Library label to the front..... More
In Darkest Africa, or, The Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. With Two Steel Engravings and One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations and Maps.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1890. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Two volumes, octavo. Illustrated, with three folding maps housed in pockets to the rear of each volume. Publisher's green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt and black. Some edgewear and rubbing to extremities, spine tips frayed, loose maps with some expected wear..... More
The Last Tresilians. A Novel.
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1963. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST US EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.384. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and yellow paper over boards. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at $4.50. A little spotting to top edge..... More
The Tinker's Wedding. A Comedy in Two Acts.
Dublin: Maunsel and Co., 1907. [Irish Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 50 [8]. Publisher's tan quarter cloth, with brown titles to spine and brown cloth over boards. All edges untrimmed. Faint traces of original ink ownership to washed fly-leaf, with small black ink monogram ownership dated 1924..... More
All Our Yesterdays.
London: William Heinemann, 1930. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 539; [3]. Publisher's black cloth, facsimile of Tomlinson's signature in gilt to upper. Gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 8/6 to front flap. Interior bright and clean with the odd mark here and..... More
Illusion: 1915.
London: William Heinemann, 1929. [Great War Short Story] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 34 [4]. Number 294 of 525 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to the limitation page. Additionally INSCRIBED in black ink to half title: 'For Carlow, | after a talk with him..... More
Lestrade and the Ripper.
London: Macmillan, 1988. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287 [1]. With a 'review copy' slip loose to preliminaries, as well as a bookplate detailing provenance. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by the author, priced..... More
Cambridge.
London: A. and C. Black Ltd., 1922. [Travel] SECOND EDITION, REVISED. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.x; 220. Publisher's blind stamped blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and in blind to upper, blue top edge, dust-jacket. With thirty two plates in colour and a sketch map of the country. Ownership to..... More
The Bookman Christmas Double Number 1915. December 1915. No. 291. Vol. 49.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, December 1915. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE SPECIAL. Folio (34 x 23cm), pp.xx; 65-108; 149; xxi-xxix. Not including the special portfolio of colour plates by Bernard Partridge. With numerous in-text black and white illustrations, and occasional colour plates by various artists, including a frontispiece by Rackham. Publisher's..... More
Turner and Girtin's Picturesque Views, Sixty Years Since. With Thirty Engravings of the Olden Time.
London: J. Hogarth, 1854. [Illustrated Togography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 19cm), pp.[2] lx; 164 [4]. With thirty engraved plates after Turner and Girtin, as well as an engraved frontispiece portrait of Turner after Count D'Orsay, and three facsimile letters written by Turner. Publisher's blind-decorated cloth, with gilt titles and..... More
The Boy's Own Paper. No. 107, Vol. III and No. 108, Vol. III.
London: The Leisure Hour, 29th January 1881, and 5th February 1881. [Sherlock Holmes Source] ORIGINAL MAGAZINES. Two A4 magazines (29 x 21cm), pp.281-296; pp.297-312. Paper covers with wood engraved illustrations; stapled. Lightly browned, chipped and rubbed to edges; staples bent out of shape. A pair of remarkable survivals. Very good..... More